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Walt Whitman Antebellum Era Poetry and Literature By Chloe Penna

Antebellum Era Literature Romanticism in literature – the liberation of the human spirit (Brinkley) Response to European low opinion of American intellectualism, or lack thereof 1820s distinct American literary voice James Fenimore Cooper first great American novelist American culture and conflict Herman Melville, Moby Dick Edgar Allen Poe, poems and novels Many Southern Antebellum writers focused on American nationalism Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson considered most important American poets Transcendentalists, romantic-inspired writers and philosophers

Walt Whitman

Walt’s Life May 31 1819 – March 26 1892 Long Island, New York printer, schoolteacher, reporter, editor, clerk, author/poet Concerned with slavery Homosexual living in an intolerant society Civil War, freelance journalist Visited and aided wounded soldiers Not overly popular until after death

Legacy One of America’s most important 19th century poets Helped establish America’s literary voice Newspaper Brooklyn Freeman response to atrocities of slave markets Anti-slavery activist, Civil War hospital volunteer Most famous collection Leaves of Grass, six editions Over 300 poems Nine books “I am large, I contain multitudes”

Writing Style Antebellum Era writer Romanticism Themes Democracy Individualism Overcoming boundaries Love Nature American life Influenced by Biblical poetry Irregular meter and rhyming schemes

Leaves of Grass First edition self-published 1855 with 12 poems Several more following editions with more poems Themes Democracy Desire for personal fulfillment Sexuality and love Romantic influences Unconventional form; rhyme and meter

Bibliography “Walt Whitman.” Poets.org, Academy of American Poets, 1 Oct. 2015, www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/walt-whitman. “Walt Whitman.” Poetry Foundation, Poetry Foundation, 2017, www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/walt-whitman. Price, Kenneth M. “Books By Whitman.” The Walt Whitman Archive, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, whitmanarchive.org/published/index.html. Brinkley, Alan. “Chapter 12: Antebellum Culture and Reform.” The Unfinished Nation: a Concise History of the American People, McGraw-Hill, 2014, pp. 270–272. Jeffares, Alexander Norman, and Gay Wilson Allen. “Walt Whitman.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 1 Aug. 2017, www.britannica.com/biography/Walt- Whitman.